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Enjoyed my stay. Always learn something new and worthy at the ranch. The ride home was pretty good… while it lasted. I'm afraid my beloved Strom ran out on me just as I got into Burnet. Waited several hours for the first tow 15 miles down the road to the local Autozone. Determined it was a charging issue, nothing $400.00 (for the second tow) and 10 hours in my leathers couldn't cure. Get some.

Enjoyed my stay. Always learn something new and worthy at the ranch. The ride home was pretty good… while it lasted. I'm afraid my beloved Strom ran out on me just as I got into Burnet. Waited several hours for the first tow 15 miles down the road to the local Autozone. Determined it was a charging issue, nothing $400.00 (for the second tow) and 10 hours in my leathers couldn't cure. Get some.

Wow. Sorry you had so much trouble. My Strom had charging issues also. Hope all worked out

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Had a great time ! ! ! Thanks Ghost for putting these get togethers on my friend. Glad everyone made it home ok, even with a tow !
It's aways great to meet new rides. Ghost out did himself on those pork chops. Top rate ! ! ! Scott, your fatty's were awesome as well and the jelly just made them better.

Enjoyed my stay. Always learn something new and worthy at the ranch. The ride home was pretty good… while it lasted. I'm afraid my beloved Strom ran out on me just as I got into Burnet. Waited several hours for the first tow 15 miles down the road to the local Autozone. Determined it was a charging issue, nothing $400.00 (for the second tow) and 10 hours in my leathers couldn't cure. Get some.

Well, its not an adventure until something goes wrong. As problems go, it could have been worse. Nice meeting you, get that Strom fixed and get back out there.

Enjoyed my stay. Always learn something new and worthy at the ranch. The ride home was pretty good… while it lasted. I'm afraid my beloved Strom ran out on me just as I got into Burnet. Waited several hours for the first tow 15 miles down the road to the local Autozone. Determined it was a charging issue, nothing $400.00 (for the second tow) and 10 hours in my leathers couldn't cure. Get some.

IIRC, Up to 07 they were putting out 375 watts. That would leave you around 100-125 watts for goodies. Starting in 08 they bumped those numbers up to 400 watts. I don't think it's really an issue of the extra juice they are putting out. I'd guess that as with the old oil burning Bandits (switched piston suppliers and oil control holes were drilled in wrong spot) when those went ot 2nd Gen they switched parts suppliers or the like and got a huge batch of sub par parts.

In this case it's not necessarily the stators burning up but the magnets coming off the rotor due to subpar manufacturing.

I do believe that many have burnt out as well but when you use a shunt type regulating system you're going to build up heat and that heat has to go somewhere. I experienced this problem on my BMW F800ST. The stator looked like a hunk of charcoal when I pulled it out of the bike. Very little cooling oil gets to it and it generates a lot of heat. BMW never warrantied or recalled the problem but came out with a mid year part number change and discontinued the old part number. All they did was take the rotor and machine a bunch of holes in the back of it to increase air/oil flow over the stator. That fixed the problem but as is par for the course with BMW they always claimed there was never a problem to start with. And of course you couldn't just buy the rotor as BMW claimed the stator and rotor were a "matched set". And again being BMW the parts to fix their problem cost right at 1000 dollars. Same thing as they did on that same bike when the rear axle and pulley bearings were eating themselves alive. They changed the service manual instructions and IIRC a few part numbers and if you had to replace everything back there it was 1000 dollars again.

I'd have to look at the parts Fische to see if the regs are the same between the gens. I have no doubt they are. That 25 watt boost in power output may have put the bikes over the top of what the system could handle. And from what I've found you can swap older parts into the newer bikes if you want to decrease output. Or switch to a series regulator.

Suzuki has never been known for having awesome charging systems.

I guess what I was getting at with all my rambling is that at least Suzuki, unlike some other manuf. will admit there's a problem and go to the plate for the consumer.

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